Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for accepting me onto your group!

Thanks Bob, another fascinating watch.

Hi Bob! Thanks again for another fascinating video on Cardiff's transport heritage. I look forward to the next!

Another interesting & well told story. Thanks Bob

Another fascinating and brilliant video. Thank you!

Interesting story, Bob 👍🏼

Very impressed Bob, and thank you for the acknowledgement. Towards the end you make reference to an angled fence, where the GCR connected with the GWR Clarence Road Branch.... this was known semi-officially as 'The Lane' and was where the GCR exchanged traffic with the GWR / BR. I got to ride on GreenBat just before the line closed as my father worked for Cardiff Corporation and knew the driver. Well done. Brian R.

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure. whenever I searched for any info on Google, your posts on the rail models forum kept coming back. I had loads of facts, but your personal input was was useful in bringing the story to life

Very good Bob.

Another fascinating tour about a part of Cardiff of which I know so little.

Thank you Bob for bringing us all this fascinating video to watch. I knew nothing about this railway not even its existence so without your hard work I would probably never have heard about it.

awsome !! did not know about the railway ...

Hi Bob, what an interesting place, you would never know it was there. I'm always amazed when I zoom in on RailMaps online in the Cardiff area (and the valleys) to see how many lines there once were. Cardiff was just railways, or so it seems!! I was imagining a enormous wave from the broken lock gates but I guess if a ship was able to get that close then tide must have been quite high and there would have been little difference in height? I think you can still see the lock gate hanging on in one of the photos. Great video, well done!! All the best!!

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

There was a lot around Cardiff and so many different companies. I did ask Railmap to recolour this line as it was originally shown as being part of the GWR lines. I am not 100% sure which side the gates were hit from, I would assume from the channels side but it may have been from within the canal. I need to have A closer read.

Nice to see you back Bob and really enjoyed the video, can picture that ship smashingbthe gate and all the water flushing out. Great video

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

Thanks. Aiming for a video every three weeks. That fits my rather hectic lifestyle. It was rather dramatic, the rest of the canal was literally left to rot. There are bits of it still there but not a lot.

Absolutely fascinating. Many thanks for making this video.

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure, it gets me out the house 😁

Great Video Bob ! My Father used to tell me stories of having to "rerail the loco" when it came of the rails by towing it with his council lorry!....

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

I have heard it was a rough rider, I would have loved to have seen it. Thanks.

I can remember walking that path daily in the early 80 to get pasties from the shops on bute street for work colleges lunches even in the heavy snows of the time, the wherehouse that was shown on the map backing on to it was on Dumballs Rd & in the 80 was a split level warehouse, everywhere was full of black coal & oil stained timber decking like an old coal unloading stage, road level in the middle with raised platform to the back & side. It was where I started work from leaving schools in 82, the building housed Mobile Sparks back then where at 16 I started training as an auto electrician, now flats I believe. I always wondered why there was a large expanse of park in that area, I new of the sealock & sealock garages on that street & as a kid can remember the swing bridge at clarence bridge over the taff where clarence bridge van hire (later city van hire) were located in the buildings on the bank of the taff (James street side) & the original docks police station (traffic div) where my father some times work from as a PC, that must of been built over the canal as it is directly opposite the street where sealock garages used to be. Great videos & great old memories 😊😊

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I am glad it brought back memories.

Thank you for the walk back in time. A very thorough conversation on the subject. Enjoy the week ahead and the upcoming weekend. Cheers Bob! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙂👍🇺🇸

Excellent work, Bob. The photo of the battery loco near the swing bridge had intrigued me when I first saw it a couple of years ago. I had not been able to find out anything more about it until your video here. Electric traction fascinates me. I knew that Cardiff Corporation had an electric loco at Cardiff Power Station (which was on Newport road adjacent to Roath tram/trolleybus depot), but I could not find any details about this canal loco or the railway, apart from the one photo. Thank you for uploading this video, as your research has filled in some rather wide gaps in my knowledge.

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

There are others in the book I mentioned but I can't find digital copies. I managed to buy one of them online but there are few photos of the line or the engines and Greenbat. Thanks for watching.

I can see my house from here. Didn't know this about my next-door park, very interesting! I thought it would just have been a dwty little canal

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

Once it was past the lock near West Canal wharf it really opened up. Actually a nice little park, I am glad they made it look good.

Really interesting again. I can't quite work out where you are in Cardiff but fascinating none the less.

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

South of the station just behind Dumbells road. There is a big park with a basketball court and playground.

well i never knew that.

I suppose I am more of a disused rail route fanatic than an actual train nut. I too take a lot of interest in the National Library of Scotland historic OS map resource and Railscot. I remember this line was still shown on 1960s OS maps, but with of course no stations. I seem to remember it was designated as double track, however. So all of your posts are interesting to me. I am also a South Wales history obsessive, having lived there back in the 60s. I'd like to ask you Bob if you are planning to explore the Treherbert line in its new SW Metro mode? I know you are already taking quite an interest in the improvement of the Cardiff Bay line as a metro. I suppose the Treherbert line's impending reopening will be historic, and there will doubtless be a few historic relics left along the line; even though it has been electrified for tram-trains and 3 new stretches of double track have been built. Plus some station reconstruction. This is one project I think we should both take an interest in. I would like to be there, but unfortunately I am in long-term exile in a place that is nothing like Wales! There's no such thing as people's history here. ;-) I have a vague recollection of Dumballs Road with tracks still in the road surface. (I also remember the same in Pill, Newport in the early 1980s.)

@bobsrailrelics

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, I will admit Pill fascinates me as there are places which scream "old railway" such as the hospital overflow car park. Not thought of the Treherbert line but a possibility, especially as there are a lot of old mining related relics still in place up there. Watch this space as they say.